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Ben Woodruff

Education

Brigham Young University

Ph.D. in Mathematics (GPA: 4.0)

Provo, Utah

2005

Dissertation: Statistical Properties of Thompson’s Group and Random Pseudo Manifolds

Utah State University

B.S. in Mathematics (GPA: 4.0)

Salt Lake City, Utah

2001

Work Experience

Mathematics Department Faculty

Brigham Young University - Idaho

Rexburg, ID

2005 - Current

  • Teach 3 semesters a year, from early September through late July
  • Conduct professional development activities, creating educational materials
  • (2012+) Internship coordinator for mathematical sciences majors
  • (2005+) Local Organizer for Putnam Exam
  • (2021+) Master Learning Practitioner Coordinator and Thinkshop Lead
  • (2010-11) Outcomes and Assessment University Committee member
  • \(\LaTeX\) (2002 - present): Use \(\LaTeX\) on a daily basis, including tikz
  • SPSS/PSPP/Excel (2006+): Common tools used in statistics program
  • PHP (2008+): Maintain various wikis. Wrote PMWiki’s jsMath cookbook.
  • MySQL, MediaWiki, Webmaster (2013+): Creator and webmaster for department webspace (web hosting and dedicated servers)
  • JavaScript/HTML5/CSS (2014+): Created an interactive normal probability applet
  • JQuery/CSS (2014): Enabled instructor customization of course text
  • R, Curl, XML (2015): Automated course package creation, saving faculty thousands of hours
  • SageMath/PHP: Wrote PHP code that enables SageMath calls in \(\LaTeX\)-enabled wikis.
  • R, Tidyverse, ggplot, dplyr (2019+): Instruct students in a Data Wrangling and Visualization course
  • RShiny (2021+): Wrote RShiny applets to give students feedback in Applied Calculs for Data Analysis, and then created a Wordle word finder (and other apps).
  • bookdown (2022): Collaborated to create an inquiry based-learning task list for our Data Wrangling and Visualization course. *Python: Guided a student senior project in Python that used MonteCarlo methods for analyzing different strategies of the card game “Dominion”.

Mathematical Association of America Service

Intermountain Section of the MAA

maa.org

2012 - Current

  • Work with section officers to facilitate MAA activites.
  • Contributed Talks organizer (2012 - 2014)
  • First Vice Chair (2015 - 2016)
  • Webmaster and technical support (2016 - 2022)
  • Conference Organizer for yearly meetings (2021)